Supreme Court to take up challenge to TikTok ban [Video]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear arguments over a new law that would ban use of the popular social media app TikTok in the U.S. unless its Chinese parent company allows it to be sold.

Justices said they will hold a special session on Jan. 10 to hear oral arguments in the case – an expedited timeline that will allow them to consider the case just nine days before the Jan. 19 ban is slated to take effect.

The news comes two days after TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, filed an emergency application to the high court asking justices to temporarily block the law from being enforced while it appealed a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. 

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Lawyers for TikTok have argued that the law passed earlier this year …